| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 56 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Jack Shannon Mysteries ; |
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Dan, Bronson.
Jack Shannon Mysteries. Spoken word ;
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Jack Daniel. |
| Summary |
Hollywood, 1947. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist. He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job. He's a fixer who babysits the studio's stars and covers up their bad behavior. Everything changes for Jack when Savannah Stevens enters his life. A sexpot star in the mold of Jean Harlow and the studio's biggest box-office draw, she's a deeply troubled young woman given to emotional breakdowns, unexplained absences from the set, and time-devouring delays occasioned by her paralyzing insecurities and her insistence on dozens of takes. Jack's job is to stay with her 24/7, deliver her to the set on time each day, and make sure she completes her current picture, a picture on which the future of the studio depends. All goes well until Savannah disappears, and Jack is assigned the task of finding her … without revealing to anyone, including the police, that she is missing. "Reading Someone to Watch Over Me is like watching a classic 1940s black-and-white noir detective movie like The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon…Too bad Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum won't be available if they make a movie out of this excellent tough-guy detective novel." "There was Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Travis McGee. Now there is Jack Shannon." "An impressively original, solidly written, hard-boiled Hollywood noir-style novel…a riveting and inherently absorbing read from cover to cover." "If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called Someone to Watch Over Me." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Thriller |
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Mystery |
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Audiobooks
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| Added Author |
Daniel, Jack.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9798200697199 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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8200697193 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14677447 |
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